Her film work includes: Older, Stronger, Wiser (1989), Long Time Comin’. (1991), Sisters in the Struggle (1991), Listening for Something (1996), Borderless (2006). The film I have choose for this case study is Older, Stronger, Wiser, Brand is this writer of this film, and it is directed by Claire Prieto. This film was based on Brand’s book No Burden to Carry, which consisted of short biographies and interviews of Black Canadian women of many different walks of life. These women range from farmers, to businesswomen they come from families who have footprints in Canada that date back to the early 18th century.
In 1990 Leila moved to Scotland with her husband and children. Then she started writing in 1992 while working as a lecturer in Aberdeen College and later as a Research Assistant in Aberdeen University. Since 2000, Leila and her family have lived in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha. She is the author of three novels: The Translator (1999), Minaret (2005) and Lyrics Alley (2010). Minaret (2005) tells the story of Najwa, an aristocratic Sudanese woman who was forced to escape her country and went into exile in Britain.
After graduating with a Masters in Fine Arts O’Connor spent the next several years living and writing in New York State until she was diagnosed with Lupus, the disease that had killed her father. At that point she moved with her mother to their family farm Andalusia where she would spend the last 13 years of her life writing and raising exotic birds. It was here that Flannery would be inspired to write her longest short story “The Displaced Person” A story which, like much of her work, borrowed heavily from her own life. “The Displaced Person” was a critical commentary on the times in which she lived and she fearlessly confronted controversial issues like racism and emigration. The inspiration for “The Displaced Person” came from an emigrant family that moved to her mother’s farm Andalusia in 1953.
Marianne Moore was born of construction engineer and inventor John Milton Moore and his wife, Mary Warner in Kirkwood, Missouri. She grew up in her grandfather's household after her father was committed to a mental hospital before her birth. In 1905, she entered Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and graduated four years later. She taught at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, until 1915, when she began to publish poetry professionally. She was exposed to avant-garde poetry and criticism.
Both of her parents were hardworking, while growing up, Morrison also learned folktales and stories that taught her about her heritage (Bois 1996). From a young age, Morrison showed a great interest in literature with all type of authors, French, English and even Russian. In 1949, Toni Morrison attended Howard University, in Washington D.C. there she also changed her name from Chloe to “Toni”, and she explained that she found it was difficult for people to pronounce (Liukkonen 2008). In 1955 and 1957, Morrison was an instructor in Texas Southern University in Houston, where she taught English. In 1958, she married husband, Harold Morrison (Johnson Lewis 2010).
Wilson 1 Megan Wilson Professor Beal English 102 October 4, 2011 A Study on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: and How Her Life Reflects on the Short Story “Clothes” The very talented author and poet, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni wrote a collection of short stories called Arranged Marriage. This is just one of her many award winning works. Although, in the beginning she was not seeking to become a writer, she came here from India to get an education and stayed. She still finds herself torn between two cultures and Chitra says, “In my writing it comes up many times because I’m aware of other people whose entry into America was even more diasporic than mine. And I write about them too; their stories are important to me.” (qtd in Seschachari).
Jonathan Tavares Prof, Shaw Eng. 102 44N 10/31/11 “The Chrysanthemums” John Steinbeck 192-198 In the well-respected short story called “The Chrysanthemums” written by John Steinbeck, he writes about a woman by the name of Elisa Allen. Elisa is described as a thirty-five-year old woman, who is a lean and strong woman who wears shapeless, functional clothing-And lives on a ranch called Salinas Valley in California in California with her husband. It was clearly mentioned in the story that Elisa has “gift “for growing things-which she is proud of. For a first time reader for me-on the kitchen reading with great intrigue, with this main character who instantly grabbed my attention.
Some would even argue that our place is no longer behind the man, but right beside the man. This paper will discuss the life and influences of author Maya Angelou. It will also discuss her use of imagery, voice and sound in the poem “Phenomenal Woman”. Marguerite Annie Johnson also known as, “Maya Angelou” was born on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri. She is the daughter of Bailey Johnson and Vivian Baxter.
This event pulled her deeper into depression and it was very evident in her writing and in everything… In 1960, Sylvia Plath's first collection of poems, The Colossus was published. Shortly thereafter, she and Ted Hughes moved "to an English country village in Devon" ("Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)"). In 1960, their first child, a daughter named Frieda, named after Sylvia's beloved paternal aunt, was born, and in 1962, their son Nicholas was born. Sylvia also suffered several miscarriages before and between the births of her children (Neurotic Poets 5-6), and "less than two years after the birth of their first child their marriage broke apart ("Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963" 1) One can only speculate about the volume and the quality of future work that Sylvia Plath, already a seasoned and much
Biography of Kate Chopin Kate Chopin was a famous author during the late eighteen hundreds publishing many famous short stories and novels such as The Awakening and Bayou Folks. She has often been referred to as “a pioneer in the amoral treatment of sexuality, of divorce, and of woman’s urge for an existential authenticity” (Seyersted 1). She led the way for feminism and was praised after her death once her style of writing became more accepted. Chopin wrote about the passion that other authors during her time would not dare to speak of. Her life greatly influenced literature today and the censorship that follows.